Have you ever written a cool tool, put it up on GitHub and then totally forgotten to tell everyone about it? Well, I wrote a call Sonus/Ribbon PowerShell log parser and forgot to tell everyone. And it’s super embarrassing! Why? I got so sick and tired of firing up Ribbons on “LX” tool every single… Read More »
This was an article I was working on whilst reverse engineering a Sonus SBC that ended up electrocuting me. So I’ve kinda fallen out of love with the project for now, Part 2 in the future? Maybe. For those that aren’t aware of Sonus/Ribbon devices, many SBCs include a small internal log cache for troubleshooting.… Read More »
Ever bricked an ASM before? Maybe it was a bad ASM upgrade, maybe you replaced the hard drive in there, or maybe you were stupid enough to Install Doom on it. The issue with any of these is, it breaks the ASM’s SBC Communication Module and the built-in Recovery partition which when looking at the… Read More »
Part of being a Skype and Teams administrator is trying to reconfigure legacy hardware that’s been left in a corner for 5+ years and never updated. Problem is, the world has moved on since these devices were deployed and depending on what firmware they were running when they were deployed. They likely won’t talk with… Read More »
Hey, and welcome back to UcMadScientist. As you might know from my Previous Article. I recently reverse-engineered the VGA pinout on a Sonus/Ribbon SBC 1000’s ASM. The ASM is an interesting module as it’s more of a server than anything else with its own little bus to the main SBC processor and connection to the… Read More »
Did you know Ribbon’s been hiding a dirty little secret from you? You can totally see the console on your SBC 1000’s ASM and interact with the machine directly! As per Damien’s article over here, Sonus/Ribbon provide VGA access to their ASM modules in the event you need to reflash the unit and don’t want… Read More »
Imagine this, you’re in the middle of a pandemic, your entire state is in lockdown, everyone is working from home and your Skype infrastructure was never designed to facilitate 100% of users working externally. Now due to the platform struggling, your boss has just told you to move your businesses calling to Teams NOW with… Read More »
As you may have guessed by some of my recent posts, I have a client that is in the middle of a large cross-forest migration of their Skype4B environment. The issue As part of their requirements to cut users over, users will be getting new SIP addresses and are being cutover “step by step” instead… Read More »
So after a recent thread over on Twitter discussing the legalities of the E911 laws in the states (I’m an Australian) as well as the fact that Enterprise Voice is now easy enough to deploy that its getting deployed by Office365 administrators without traditional telephony experience. I figured I’d take a few minutes to publish… Read More »
So I recently had a customer request that they have an on call mobile display the number of the calling party when a line was diverted outside of business hours. Luckily they were using a standard client to do the call forwarding and not a response group, so it was simple to redirect the call… Read More »